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From: "Folkert van Heusden" <folkert@vanheusden.com>
To: "'John Bradford'" <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: reading from devices in RAW mode
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:09:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004d01c2bf14$54099340$3640a8c0@boemboem> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301181615.h0IGFhUU001597@darkstar.example.net>

> > I thought that I could do that at least for floppy, not sure about
> > harddisk (RLL through ACSI interface).
> Well, you can probably do it with ST-506 interface hard disk, because
> the data that goes in to that is more or less directly fed from the
> head-amp, which is partly why it was so sensitive to cable length.

Those were the times :-)

> The closest you could probably get with any modern device would be
> "read sector foo, and return data even if ECC appears to have
> failed".

And that's exactly what I want!
(for the situations where the bad data starts, say, halfway the sector)


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-18 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030118132315.GF19381@louise.pinerecords.com>
2003-01-18 14:00 ` Folkert van Heusden
2003-01-18 14:30   ` John Bradford
2003-01-18 16:03     ` Folkert van Heusden
2003-01-18 16:15       ` John Bradford
2003-01-18 17:09         ` Folkert van Heusden [this message]
2003-01-18 17:33           ` John Bradford
2003-01-19 21:03 Arnaud Boulan
     [not found] <1042896128.1157.4.camel@RobsPC.RobertWilkens.com>
2003-01-18 13:58 ` Folkert van Heusden
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-18 13:16 Folkert van Heusden
2003-01-18 18:50 ` Andrew Morton

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